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10 Pfennig - Eggolsheim Johann Kraus Erstes Gem. Warengeschäft
| Issuer | Johann Kraus Erstes Gem. Warengeschäft, Eggolsheim |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The octagonal flan displays a continuous pearl border along its full perimeter. The circular legend KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE is arranged around the upper arc in raised Latin lettering. A twisted rope circle encloses the central field, within which the numeral 10 is struck in large raised figures. Three five-pointed stars are positioned at the lower arc outside the rope border, evenly spaced as ornamental separators. |
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This is a piece of Notgeld — emergency token currency issued by private businesses and municipalities across Germany during and after World War I, when small-denomination coinage all but vanished from circulation. Johann Kraus's cooperative general store in Eggolsheim, a small Franconian village in Bavaria, issued these zinc tokens to facilitate everyday transactions when the imperial coinage system failed to keep small change in local hands. Zinc was the material of necessity; copper and nickel had long since been redirected to the war effort.